My Dear Friend

It’s all over.

I fall to my knees, my eyes leak out tears that drip down my face and falling on the ground. The small grey pile of dust rests before me, slowly flying away with the wind.

“No, no, no, no,” I whimpered, my heart sinks very low and aching in pain. “This can’t be, not him.”

The wind blows harder now, blowing away the ashes that leaves something that made me gasp in dread that it is true.

In the place under all the ashes, is a dog tag with the inscription of a word, “Bolt”.

I pick up the collar with my hands shake to the point that I may drop it back to the ground. I hold the tag close to my heart and, for once in a very long time, I cry that makes echoes across the remains of what my house used to be.

“No, Bolt, you can’t be,” I sob, my tears blurring my vision. Bolt has been my partner through our service at the military, and now he is disintegrated all because of me and my ability. I look around to find that all the metallic objects that stored the electricity I had absorbed for years have been burned to the point each one is black. I stand up and find the mirror that is still hanging but has shattered across. I walk to it and stand before it, seeing my reflection of my hippie brown long hair and my bearded features that hold my soft brown eyes and pimples that are all over my face. I look down at the dog tag, thinking of the wonderful times I had with my canine companion, from when we first met and trained till now with him burned to ashes by my foolish action of releasing all the electricity I had stories in all the metallic objects in my house. Inhaling, I put on the dog tag and let it hang loosely with the name shining from the sun that is slowly falling down to the waves.

“I won’t forget you Bolt,” I whisper, looking back at the view where the ashes have blown away with the wind to the sea. “Rest in peace, my canine friend.”

The wind howls in response, almost reminding me of my white German Shepherd friend,who usually runs through the sand and sometimes into the waves. Suddenly, I notice something weird: a almost visible white animal is dashing for the waters, and once it touches the water it disappears that I have to blink twice to think I have imagined that. A smile comes on my face, with even more tears coming down my cheeks, I whisper the one word I thought I would never say in my life, “Goodbye.”